Progress Through Partnership
E-Newsletter for members and friends of Chicago Appleseed
and the Chicago Council of Lawyers

10 April 2006


In this e-Newsletter:

2006 Federal Judicial Evaluations

The Chicago Council of Lawyers has released its 2006 Evaluation of the Federal District Judges in Chicago.

The Council's federal judicial evaluations are motivated by a desire to improve the quality of justice in Chicago by offering the candid views of federal court practitioners to the judges themselves, and to the public officials who will be making future judicial selections, as well as to the public.

Download the press statement and official report.


State Judicial Evaluations

Due to ballot problems, official results from the judicial races have been delayed. We will provide the results when they are available.


Council policy statement on the retirement of Justice McMorrow - Judge Anne Burke to replace the retiring Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow

On April 5th, Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow announced both that she is retiring from the bench and that she and her colleagues had voted to replace her with Illinois Appellate Court Justice Anne Burke. In response, the Council wished Justice McMorrow well and issued this statement... Read More.